To the international company that tasers sheep

Yeehaw and welcome back to another week. I found some stuff while I was roaming the ‘Net. Here we go:

First up our two favorite criminals, Maximiliano Pereyra and Ariel Diaz, way down south in Argentina, eluded the “300 members of the local constabulary searching for them” by dressing up as sheep and running through the town’s fields at night. There’s no word on what crimes the elusive duo committed but it seems a good time was had by all…at least for awhile.

Own an iPhone? This app’s for you. Hot off the press and into the AppStore is the release of Saving Private Sheep. This one pits salivating wolves against military sheep in a weird duo that includes some stuff about UFO’s carrying off cows and other impossible foolishness. Here’s your chance to save a few sheep through 80 (yes, 80) different games while finding time for the rest of your life. If you have a Droid…sorry

The latest from our friends, those criminals down in West Cape May, NJ, is a battle shaping up: someone is taking down the yarn art. Philistines! So get this: now folks who have friended (over 7,000 and counting) the Salty Knits crew on Facebook are sending yarn. Lots of yarn. It gets better…not only are the members of this secret underground gang still on the lam, but so is the crowd pulling their stuff down. No one knows who anyone else is and one of these days I’m expecting The Worst… I love a mystery, don’t you?

Speaking of Salty Knits. Here’s my favorite story about these unknowns: one fan wrote in that her mom was in Cape Regional Hospital’s cancer center. And you probably guessed it: they yarn bombed her room in the night! Much joy in the morning. Yes, staff collusion all the way. But who’s counting…

I’ve got a story: has everyone seen this blow out: The True Cost of Cheap Cashmere? It was first posted on the Huffington Post by Susan Gibbs. This has been all over the blogs and Ravelry. Next time you get the lusts for cheap cashmere blend yarn…read/re-read this.

And here’s something that really got to me, sheep are being used to test tasers. You read it right. Taser International is using sheep that have been fed methamphetamine to test tasers. Sixteen Dorset sheep were repeatedly zapped…because they couldn’t use a real methhead. OK, now I’m officially p*%@!d off. And I want the turkeys at Taser International to know. Oh, yuh, and the sheep didn’t die! Wow! that makes it all better. PS. There were four control sheep that weren’t cranked on meth and they were hit repeatedly too. PPS This shameful thing is definitely not in their “Latest Company News” on the front page of their website.

After that it’s hard to do a segue into something pleasant. How about something that will come back to haunt you in a later post (probably more then once): I actually got massive help to do my first heel gusset and I’m in the homestretch on Sock Number One. Thanks to a cast of thousands for teaching me, vetting me, rolling their eyes and mumbling under their breath. We did it and…it fits!

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Regarding the sheep, that’s insane. If you start a petition at PetitionSite.com, I would sign it. A seventeen-year-old boy did that for Thacher Park, and what a response that whole issue got. You could post a link here.

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